Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

What About Will by Ellen Hopkins

11 reviews

tashtash93's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

el_wheel's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexism

Minor: War

iamthelizardqueen's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Not the ending I expected but it was good 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Sexism, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

kylieabbynormal's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment

Minor: War

diaryofabookahloic's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

 * spoiler alert ** This book broke my heart and I will say trigger warning for drug abuse, parent leaving, and Overdosing, maybe suicide. in this book we follow trace as he goes about his life after his big brother major accident ( this happens before the book even starts). Trace being 12 years old and trying to figure out a way to fix his family and bring everyone together and become the family they once was. Trace's story broke my heart simply because A child should never have to feel like they should fix the problems with in the family. Now I will go in to a spoiler here and that is trace finds his brother after he has Overdosed lucky trace found his brother in time but this broke my heart even more I almost could get myself to finish the book after this scene because even though this book is fiction this is somebodies real life in today's world and a child even at the preteen age should have to see that. really no one should and with that I'm going to wrap up this review because just thinking about it is s breaking my heart. So with that remember to be kind to yourself and read what you love 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Addiction, and Drug abuse

kaylaannsreads's review

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Drug abuse

sb1119's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Suicide attempt, and Drug abuse

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Drug abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Sexism

bekah1210's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Suicide attempt

itsmeyseniab's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I was expecting way more from this one. I’m not sure if it was because of it being a middle grade story, but Ellen Hopkins didn’t give us much detail about Will and his struggles like she has with her characters who battle drug addictions in her other novels, which left a lot to be desired in terms of the plot. It came off more angsty than anything, which made me feel like the inclusion of Will’s opioid addiction was ultimately unnecessary. I didn’t feel any emotions towards any of the characters, and found the inclusion of the sexism plot line between Trace and his new little-league teammate Catalina to be extremely jarring as well. It made the entire reading experience feel clunky and left me wondering what the point of it was…

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexism, Abandonment, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail